What are the Western Mysteries? There are many answers. The OAR is a way to guide through the waters of Chaos and time.  The Western mysteries are for PARTICIPATION, TRANSFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, COMPASSION, MEDIATION through the TRUTH of LIFE LIGHT LOVE & LAW

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics

is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

The Main text book of The O.A.R. will be LIVING MAGICAL ARTS. This is a book I have used for approx. thirty years.

This is an entire course in High Magic and good for beginners and advanced students of the Mysteries. It is also open ended enough to be able to be used; as a magical course is never complete, because the completion happens with YOU.

In order to purchase this book I will provide the following link but if you need help buying a book that can be arranged

Although I still work magically with the author, the text is still copyright.

As such any original material will be my own but drawn from the text and from years of work with the text and traditions it comes from.

https://rjstewart.org/new-titles-from-rj-stewart-books/

The Qabalah within this text is based on that found with WG Gray. As such it is not like the golden dawn. Those expecting Qabalah similar to the Golden dawn will be disappointed.

Communication will be through email, PDF, Message board and similar. With hopefully Monthly or similar online gatherings for Magic. After a group has been established there is plenty here for life. We can discuss further options.

Initially there will be no cost for anything through or from The OAR. Just commitment to the Work

Maybe in years to come there will be advanced groups; but I do not foresee that happening any time soon!

Living Magical Arts is founded upon the author's practical experience of the Western Magical Traditions, and contains specific teachings from within a living and long established initiatory line of British, French, and Russian esoteric tradition. Living Magical Arts offers a new and clear approach to the philosophy and practice of magic for the twenty-first century, stripping away the accumulated nonsense found in many repetitive publications, and re-stating the art for contemporary use. This book offers a coherent illustrated set of magical techniques for individual or group use, leading to profound changes of consciousness and subtle energy. Magical arts are revealed as an enduring system of insight into human and universal consciousness, combining a practical spiritual psychology (long predating materialist psychology) with an effective method of relating to the physical world. Many of the obscure aspects of magical work are clarified, with insights into themes such as the origins of magical arts, working with subtle forces, partaking of esoteric traditions, liberating sexual energies, magical effects upon the world of nature, and the future potential and development of creative magic

1. involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal.

   "every member has clearly defined tasks in a cooperative enterprise"

    

    

    

   con·ver·sa·tion

   /ˌkänvərˈsāSHən/

    

   noun

   noun: conversation; plural noun: conversations

   1. a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.

      "she picked up the phone and held a conversation in French"

Equipment needed for this group: Yourself, and a set of tarot cards; ideally a Rider Waite or clone deck. A candle, a journal...imagination.

.....

We could create our own set of magical tools specifically for this together. This is a project that we can do very cheaply. At most a few hundred dollars worth of equipment but I could conceivably see an entire set of magical tools being created and consecrated easily for under $100, not sent to me, your own expense.

The overall structure of the book is more unfinished operating system. I and the group can fill in the blanks. This is HOW magic works, through DOING.

Not only will we establish ways to DO magic, Inner contacts unique for everyone etc.

We will also go through a unique qabalah system, VERY quickly. If the group wants to go through it further we can. There is no Hebrew as this is not overtly christian or Jewish Kabbalah.

This is the Western Mysteries simplified and advanced, where we go from here after this book will be up to the group as we can explore much more.